Brake Rotor Question
Brake Rotor Question
I have a 2002 FLHT. Was looking at the front rotors.
The look to be stainless but Im not 100% sure.
A magnet sticks to them so if there Stainless I know is of poor quality.
Can anyone conferm to me that they are stailess or not.
If they are than Im going to buff them to mirror but if not than screw it.
I just finished refinishing my calipers and the rotors would really set things off.
Sibs
The look to be stainless but Im not 100% sure.
A magnet sticks to them so if there Stainless I know is of poor quality.
Can anyone conferm to me that they are stailess or not.
If they are than Im going to buff them to mirror but if not than screw it.
I just finished refinishing my calipers and the rotors would really set things off.
Sibs
Road Warrior
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From: General Sherman's Christmas Location 1864
no such thing as "pure stainless"
Higher nickel means softer metal
My guess it's about 5-10% nickel (which "makes it stainless")
heat treated etc etc
So yes they are steel more or less
Higher nickel means softer metal
My guess it's about 5-10% nickel (which "makes it stainless")
heat treated etc etc
So yes they are steel more or less
Yes I know theres no such thing as pure stainless. Ive worked with 304 grade for 30 years. Highter concentration of nickel. I also know that stainless that a magnet will stick too is of poor quality and scrap dealers WONT except it. IT RUSTS!!!!
Look in the grooves of the rotors your see rust
Yes 5 to 10% does make it stainless but Id never make parts from it. Ive made alot of parts for my bikes from 304 grade,IE comercial grade, Restaurants and medical.
I just wanted to make sure I wasnt seeing things and they just had a nickel plating over them. After a while yer eyes start playing tricks on ya.
Now Im going to refinish them to a high buff, Dirty fricked job,lolololo
Thanks for the help.
Sibs
Look in the grooves of the rotors your see rust
Yes 5 to 10% does make it stainless but Id never make parts from it. Ive made alot of parts for my bikes from 304 grade,IE comercial grade, Restaurants and medical.
I just wanted to make sure I wasnt seeing things and they just had a nickel plating over them. After a while yer eyes start playing tricks on ya.
Now Im going to refinish them to a high buff, Dirty fricked job,lolololo
Thanks for the help.
Sibs
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Joined: Jun 2007
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From: Bedford UK
Yes I know theres no such thing as pure stainless. Ive worked with 304 grade for 30 years. Highter concentration of nickel. I also know that stainless that a magnet will stick too is of poor quality and scrap dealers WONT except it. IT RUSTS!!!!
Look in the grooves of the rotors your see rust
Yes 5 to 10% does make it stainless but Id never make parts from it. Ive made alot of parts for my bikes from 304 grade,IE comercial grade, Restaurants and medical.
I just wanted to make sure I wasnt seeing things and they just had a nickel plating over them. After a while yer eyes start playing tricks on ya.
Now Im going to refinish them to a high buff, Dirty fricked job,lolololo
Thanks for the help.
Sibs
Look in the grooves of the rotors your see rust
Yes 5 to 10% does make it stainless but Id never make parts from it. Ive made alot of parts for my bikes from 304 grade,IE comercial grade, Restaurants and medical.
I just wanted to make sure I wasnt seeing things and they just had a nickel plating over them. After a while yer eyes start playing tricks on ya.
Now Im going to refinish them to a high buff, Dirty fricked job,lolololo
Thanks for the help.
Sibs
The duty that rotors perform is obviously very different from that for things for restaurants and medical. They are not nickel plated.
Intermediate
Joined: Mar 2011
Posts: 45
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From: TOMS RIVER, NJ
it drives me crazy how quickly these rotors rust. i have owned many metric bikes before my harley and i have never had a rotor rust on me. harley needs to have the jap manufacturer build their rotors.
Road Master
Joined: Jan 2011
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From: Riverside, Ca.
They probably are japanese or chinese! Anyway, are you sure they weren't replaced in the past with a/m. I'm about to change mine, 40,000 miles, and they have zero rust. Just undercut enough to justify replacement. Three stainless steel rotors with pads for 179 on e-bay.
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Im not buffing the whole rotor. Just from the inner marking from the pads inward.
Im not touching where the pads rub at all.
Yes I know theres a big dif between the puropse of a rotor and comercial aps.
My whole question was not so much on the two but that the rotor was indeed stainless period.
Here in Canada Scrap metal companies wont take the lesser quality stainless. When I take scrap stainless back, there waiting with a magnet. Any stainless I have that a magnet atracts to they dont want peroid. I cant even give it to them. To them its contaminated junk,lolololol. I have to pre check everything to make sure a magnet will not stick.
I just want to buff the inner part of my rotors so it looks good aginst my calipers.Thats it. I have 2 months yet till riding weather arives and I have too much time on my hands ,lololol My new rims, seat and **** are still in transit and Im restless,lololol Once I can ride, Thats all I want to do period.
Sibs
Im not touching where the pads rub at all.
Yes I know theres a big dif between the puropse of a rotor and comercial aps.
My whole question was not so much on the two but that the rotor was indeed stainless period.
Here in Canada Scrap metal companies wont take the lesser quality stainless. When I take scrap stainless back, there waiting with a magnet. Any stainless I have that a magnet atracts to they dont want peroid. I cant even give it to them. To them its contaminated junk,lolololol. I have to pre check everything to make sure a magnet will not stick.
I just want to buff the inner part of my rotors so it looks good aginst my calipers.Thats it. I have 2 months yet till riding weather arives and I have too much time on my hands ,lololol My new rims, seat and **** are still in transit and Im restless,lololol Once I can ride, Thats all I want to do period.
Sibs
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